Nitrogen is a deep acceptor in ZnO
Abstract
Zinc oxide is a promising material for blue and UV solid-state lighting devices, among other applications. Nitrogen has been regarded as a potential p-type dopant for ZnO. However, recent calculations indicate that nitrogen is a deep acceptor. This paper presents experimental evidence that nitrogen is, in fact, a deep acceptor and therefore cannot produce p-type ZnO. A broad photoluminescence (PL) emission band near 1.7 eV, with an excitation onset of ~2.2 eV, was observed, in agreement with the deep-acceptor model of the nitrogen defect. Thus the deep-acceptor behavior can be explained by the low energy of the ZnO valence band relative to the vacuum level.
- Authors:
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- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1076494
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46386; DMR-1004804
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- AIP Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; II-IV semiconductors; photoluminescence; annealing; doping; vacancies
Citation Formats
Tarun, M. C., Iqbal, M. Zafar, and McCluskey, M. D. Nitrogen is a deep acceptor in ZnO. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.3582819.
Tarun, M. C., Iqbal, M. Zafar, & McCluskey, M. D. Nitrogen is a deep acceptor in ZnO. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3582819
Tarun, M. C., Iqbal, M. Zafar, and McCluskey, M. D. Thu .
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@article{osti_1076494,
title = {Nitrogen is a deep acceptor in ZnO},
author = {Tarun, M. C. and Iqbal, M. Zafar and McCluskey, M. D.},
abstractNote = {Zinc oxide is a promising material for blue and UV solid-state lighting devices, among other applications. Nitrogen has been regarded as a potential p-type dopant for ZnO. However, recent calculations indicate that nitrogen is a deep acceptor. This paper presents experimental evidence that nitrogen is, in fact, a deep acceptor and therefore cannot produce p-type ZnO. A broad photoluminescence (PL) emission band near 1.7 eV, with an excitation onset of ~2.2 eV, was observed, in agreement with the deep-acceptor model of the nitrogen defect. Thus the deep-acceptor behavior can be explained by the low energy of the ZnO valence band relative to the vacuum level.},
doi = {10.1063/1.3582819},
journal = {AIP Advances},
number = 2,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}
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